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Shipping Fever
The term shipping fever is a general catch-all to describe respiratory disease in horses that tend to occur after they have been transported. The same kinds of disease can occur in other situations as well, but the stress of travel and the conditions
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Lower-Leg Position Fixes Needed
1 Overall: My first impression of this rider is that she’s kind of a seat-of-the-pants rider, but she hasn’t gone through the American equitation system. Leg: Her foot is what we call “too far home” in the stirrup: The iron is too close to the heel a
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Collection Requires Positive Tension. When Asking For More Collection Within Each Gait …
I magine a bow and arrow. To the degree that you take back on the arrow against the bow string (because it is attached at both ends of the bow, creating a circuit), the effect on the arrow is to go exponentially more forward toward where it is direct

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